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Dropbox anyone?
Posted on 13-Aug-2009 7:50:23
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| Dropbox is a very neat way of sharing files over internet with friends.
Just copy a file to your dropbox and your friends that 'subscribe' to that folder gets a message that pops up on their screen in a non disturbing way that there's a new file in the folder.
There's clients for all major platforms. That excludes AmigaOS as usual.
Maybe someone would be interested in reverse engeinering the protocol and make a client for AmigaOS? Just an idea.
There is also an open source alternative called IFolder. But i don't think it's as widely used.
Maybe we could even contact the dropbox developers and ask for docs. Who knows..
Anyone interested in this?
http://www.getdropbox.com/ Last edited by spotUP on 13-Aug-2009 at 07:51 AM.
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Re: Dropbox anyone?
Posted on 13-Aug-2009 7:52:58
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It´s maybe easier to build our own system, based on php-scripts for webserver and a small client for amiga os.
The Idea behind it is good, we need something simple for fileexchange over the web until sabremsn filetransfer is fixed.
It should use Port 80 and tcp-protocol to face no firewall problems.
In the past i have similar ideas just to exchange files with my coder 
Last edited by fingus on 13-Aug-2009 at 10:09 AM.
Last edited by fingus on 13-Aug-2009 at 07:54 AM.
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Re: Dropbox anyone?
Posted on 13-Aug-2009 12:26:37
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ideally, i'd want it to be compatible with dropbox. none of my friends use amigas today. _________________
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Re: Dropbox anyone?
Posted on 13-Aug-2009 12:45:28
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I'm willing to give it a try at least if you can get the info on the protocol. I haven't done any networking code before but I guess I can learn... |
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Re: Dropbox anyone?
Posted on 13-Aug-2009 15:02:14
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Re: Dropbox anyone?
Posted on 13-Aug-2009 18:44:17
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Is it WebDAV? The http-handler beta (the one on os4depot) supports that. If DropBox doesn't, just sign up for an account at www.sharemation.com and use that instead.
However, problem: WebDAV support in http-handler was always beta and I got fed up with utterley awful, rubbish, totally unnecessary over-complicated XML parsing*. So it never really worked properly, but it does sort of work with Sharemation as that's the main site I was using for testing and developing.
If it is WebDAV and/or somebody wants to fix the WebDAV-supporting version of http-handler, I can provide the source code. Knowledge of expat.library will be essential.
Chris
* This is a gripe with XML as a whole, but particulary when it is used for things that don't benefit from it.
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Re: Dropbox anyone?
Posted on 14-Aug-2009 17:46:11
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as i said, i am after dropbox. that is what all of my friends are using. i don't want some obscure amiga only sollution.
salass00: i hope you didn't miss the link to the source above.
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Re: Dropbox anyone?
Posted on 14-Aug-2009 17:50:38
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Ouch, found this...
Anyway… “Dropbox is not open?!?” you say, “But the source is available on their webpage?”. This is correct and very very wrong at the same time. The Nautilus plugin is open, but contrary to common belief, it is NOT the dropbox client. Once you’ve installed the Nautilus plugin (which is 66k) it will download 35megs of closed souce in the background into the folder ~/.dropbox-dist. Without asking permission. _________________
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Posted on 14-Aug-2009 18:06:27
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WebDAV is hardly an obscure Amiga-only solution! It is an open well-documented standard, and has been built in to Windows since w2k.
Search Google for "WebDAV" and you'll find loads of stuff on it.
The http-handler offer still stands. Anybody interested, set up an OpenAmiga.org account and let me know your username. I'll put it up there as it's the sort of thing which OpenAmiga would benefit from.
Chris
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